Ahead of International Youth Day 2025, three place‑based education initiatives — in London, Romania and New York — show how teaching young people to read and redesign their surroundings helps translate the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals into practical, local urban action. August 12 has been marked by the United Nations…

A Royal College of Nursing FOI reveals recorded physical assaults on London A&E staff rose to 4,054 in 2024 from 2,093 in 2019, with nurses reporting punches, threats and weapons. Unions warn chronic staffing shortages and long waits are driving the surge and say security measures alone will not protect…

McLaren has been appointed lead contractor on the c.£100m retrofit and extension of LSE’s 35 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, a David Chipperfield Architects scheme that will retain about 60% of the 1950s fabric and add a lightweight cross‑laminated timber rooftop. The project is being promoted as a low‑carbon, circular exemplar targeting…

A Royal College of Nursing Freedom of Information analysis finds physical assaults on A&E staff almost doubled between 2019 and 2024, with frontline nurses describing being spat at, punched and threatened with weapons including acid and guns. Unions warn the rise is fuelling resignations and sickness, and say NHS England’s…

A mid‑August heatwave forecast to push temperatures to about 34°C has prompted a high pollution alert across London, with City Hall and Imperial College warning that hot, sunny conditions will lift ozone levels and advising vulnerable people to limit exposure. The Mayor’s office says the expanded Ultra Low Emission Zone…

The former Springfield Hospital in Tooting has been remade as Springfield Village, a health‑led mixed‑use neighbourhood featuring two new mental‑health buildings, around 1,288 homes and a 32‑acre park officially opened on 10 July 2025. Springfield Hospital in Tooting has been reborn as Springfield Village, a mixed‑use neighbourhood that places modern…

An Evening Standard travel feature spotlights Runnymede Pleasure Grounds at Egham as an accessible, family-friendly Thames outing — a stretch of sandy river ‘beach’, supervised paddling pool, café and grassy picnic space. It is around 40 minutes by train from London Waterloo and offers short-stay parking, but visitors are advised…

Around sixty firefighters extinguished roughly three hectares of burning grass on Wanstead Flats after more than 30 calls reporting multiple pockets of blaze; crews used a wildfire response vehicle and a drone and brought the fire under control by 7:58pm. The incident — the second large grass fire at the…

A surge of hot, humid air from continental Europe is set to push temperatures into the high 20s and low 30s — and possibly as high as 34°C in parts of central and southern England — from Tuesday 12 August. Amber heat‑health alerts cover large swathes of England as the…

Many people in their forties in the capital say they feel decades younger even as they shoulder senior managerial roles and large fiscal responsibilities. Census and employment data, plus workplace research, suggest longer hours and high living costs are driving a move away from alcohol‑centred socialising towards selective evenings, fitness…

Hayu will premiere The Real Housewives of London on 18 August 2025 as its first self‑commissioned original — a ten‑episode series featuring a six‑strong London cast and a reunion hosted by Katherine Ryan. Produced by Universal Television Alternative Studio UK, the commission is a strategic push to grow Hayu’s UK…

Web-native menswear label Bianca Saunders staged an immersive Shoreditch activation for her Spring/Summer 2025 collection, The Hotel, partnering with Puma’s H‑Street campaign. The Puma-backed pop-up combined tactile retail, music, food and community programming rooted in Jamaican culture to translate online inventory into lived experience. Bianca Saunders has turned a web‑first…